Force Aero to Work on Vista RC2 (Build 5744)

These instructions to force Aero on Windows Vista RC2. (It worked for me.)

1) Ensure that you have the following registry value set to :

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsDWMComposition set to 1 (32-bit DWORD)
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsDWMCompositionPolicy set to 2 (32-bit DWORD)

2/ Restart DWM by opening a command prompt with Administrative Privileges :

- Type 'net stop uxsms'
- Then 'net start uxsms'

That's it!

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